Compete With Oneself – The 52 Day Challenge

I remember Sri Sri Ravi Shankar telling me, “Competing with others is arrogance; competing with yourself is confidence!” These words on Vikramji’s Blog instantly struck a chord ( His blog is also music to my ears) .

These words made me wonder – “What does competing with oneself entail?” What came to me was the simple yet profound principle of Yoga -” As much as you can and a little bit more.”

Now I wanted to consciously take some time to chalk out in what all areas of my life – I could compete with myself. What would it be like to play this game of competing with myself? How sweet would be the taste of victory when I challenge the idea about what I think I can do and what I cannot do? About who I can be and who I cannot? About what I need and what I do not?

This gave birth to a time bound game. How about I take this game on to challenge myself in 3 areas of my life for 52 days (March 20th to May 12th 2008) leading to Gurudev’s 52nd birthday.

One area is doing “Sadhana” for 52 days in a row without a gap – . “We do that every day” – one might say. The game would be to take on that little bit more. That “little bit more” is where I would challenge myself.